The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, April 01, 1981, Page Page 4, Image 4
(JSC's soccer field has bt
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Bubble
By Wesl<
Staff
Construction on "Cloud Nine
polyester bubbles in the U
Tuesday to provide a floating
practice field at 1400 Whaley S
Covering almost 100,000 squ
the air, the air-inflated field
room will be used as a prac
teams.
The 80,000-pound bubble an<
Department about $754,149? ;
ALTHOUGH construction o
derway for about a month, act
completed Tuesday morning.
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rvt o a.m. iwu giaiu oiowen
keep the structure inflated ,
structure during the winter,
inflation process.
By 11 a.m. the bubble, anch
cables attached to a concrete
workers began installing light
After inflation began, sever
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one of the largest inflatable
nited States, was completed ?
I enclosure over USC's soccer
t.
lare feet and rising 60 feet into
house and its attached locker
tice field by Carolina athletic
J locker room cost the Athletic
about $7 a square foot.
f the field house has been un;ual
inflation of the bubble was
>, one which will continuously i
and one which will heat the
were turned on to begin the
ored by three-fourth-inch steel
foundation, was inflated, and
5 on top of the structure,
al revolving doors, which only
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hours before stood erect in the mi
connected to the bubble by a ser
doors will keep the air pressure
replace any lost air.
At one end of the field, a 12-fool
allow field access to maintenanc
connected by an aluminum and st<
which will prevent air leakage ev
the structure.
AN OFFICE complex is also be
and will be connected to the loc
enter and exit through those doors
According to Ed Bass, manager
and Engineering Department, the
slowly destroy the bubble's polye
laDric 10 De replaced in 15 to 20 yea
"However, when that occurs all
the fabric bubble. The foundatio
reusable long into the future," Bas
The top of the bubble is clear to <
The field house can be collapse*
off the fan.
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